On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:50:36AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:08:35PM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with | > | causing recursion? | > | > tar -zcvf /tmp/backup.tar.gz /[^t]* | > | > tar acts recursively automatically, but it is bad to try and include | > the directory you are writing the tar file to (it tries to include it, | > and it bombs out). | | Not sure what you mean with bombs out.
It did once. Incomplete read or file changed while reading or some such error. | For me it works, tar is clever enough | to excluding such a recursive file but behaves correctly otherwise, like: I can't reproduce it right now, it's working at the moment. -D -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut!
